HMD prices

[HenFre]

K_Freddie:

My biggest concern is also the resolution of the unit. I have seen a great deal of reviews on different products and all of the users have said, that these HMD's was useless in fligtsims because of the low resolution. The low resolution caused the player to not being able to read gauges or find the enemy planes, which is escential in these types of games.

I have never tried to use an actual HMD, so I have no idear if the resolution of 800x600 is enough for me to satisfied with the graphics.
So I just have a question: If I wanted to test how it looked, can I set my own display to 800x600 and then align it to one of my eyes. Distance my head from the display, so that it fills 30 degress in my field of vision and thats how it would look??

Would it not be better to use a display with say 1280x1024 straight away? Or are these dispays simply to expensive at this point in time. I have seen several units using this resolution and they have been produced since 2003, but still cost the same as they did when they where first revealed: 24.000 $